February 28, 2006

How Many People Will Bush Kill?

US President George W Bush says US greenhouse gas intensity, or the amount of greenhouse gas emission for every dollar of economic output, is falling. He is wrong:

The United States, the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases, released about 7.075 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent last year, according to a draft report from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The growth rate was stronger than in each of the previous two years with emissions rising 0.6 per cent in 2003 and 0.7 per cent in 2002.

This alone would be sufficient reason to throw the bastard out of office.